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technocomplexes

technocomplexes

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Noun

technocomplexes

  1. plural of technocomplex
    • 2015 July 9, “Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0131181:
      As many of these innovations are widely acknowledged to represent reliable material cultural proxies for symbolic thinking, the authorship—Neandertal, or modern human—of the transitional technocomplexes in which they are observed for the first time in Europe has been the matter of much controversy ([1 ] and references therein).